2023 May-June
Go North, Young Woman
In the United Kingdom, the year 1977 marks the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee, as well as the birth of her first grandchild…...
NJ Ayuk Makes His Case
NJ Ayuk is Africa’s renaissance man. Born in West Africa, (he calls himself “the luckiest kid born in Cameroon”), and raised by a single mother...
My Path to the Oil and Gas Industry
As I think back to my years growing up in Uvalde, Texas, then attending the University of Texas at Austin, my path to the oil...
Supreme Court Rules Day Rate Workers Entitled to Overtime Pay
In a highly anticipated case that has major implications for the oil and gas industry, the United States Supreme Court held that an oilfield worker...
Letter from the Publisher (May-June 2023)
Summer is approaching. Time moves quickly, especially when business is good. How has the oil and gas industry performed from a year ago? I’ll start...
Realizing Global Growth – What the Oil and Gas Sector Can learn from Civil Nuclear Manufacturing Processes
As the demand for a shift to renewable energy sources grows, the infrastructure that has long served as the foundation of our energy supply is...
Tank Storage Sees New Design and Continued Benefits of Preventative Maintenance
Like upstream, and all oil and gas production areas, tank storage can benefit from improvement and regular maintenance. When discussing the oil and gas industry,...
Sofiane Djezzar, Geoscientist, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center
Alan Alexeyev: Please introduce yourself and your area of expertise. Sofiane Djezzar: I am an enthusiastic geoscientist at the University of North Dakota (UND) Energy...
How To Control Costs in the Cloud
Organizations around the globe are moving their workloads to public cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google cloud. These platforms offer tremendous...